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Old 09-10-2021, 19:49   #7476
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
How is it a deflection? As an economist, you should appreciate that if Country A includes all deaths from Covid including those who had Covid when they died and Country B with a similar population only recorded Covid deaths in hospitals, you’d expect the figures of Country A to be higher, wouldn’t you?
It’s a deflection because you’ll never accept that it’s been handled badly, despite 150,000 deaths by ONS methodology. The idea that other countries are fudging their figures to the extent to render comparisons meaningless is fanciful.
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